Ready for the Oscars?

I'm not. I like to see as many Oscar nominated films as possible before the telecast. I've done pretty well in the last five years, but it's gone WAY down this year with the addition of Ozzie to our family. I don't mind that I've missed the movies in lieu of taking care of my pride and joy (who turns eight months old today), but I'm certainly not as excited for the big awards show as I've been in years past.

I saw one Oscar nominated film this year, Gravity. It's getting some good buzz too. I have tomorrow off work, and Megan took it off so we could have a baby-less day to go out to eat, maybe go to a movie, maybe just sleep all day. The sky was the limit until our daycare lady also took tomorrow off, so we'll be one big happy family for our "just-the-two-of-us-day."

I figured that we could rent a movie to watch while he (hopefully) sleeps in. Captain Phillips is nominated, and on DVD, so I got that from Redbox. I also had a code texted to me to rent one get one free. It was an outdoor Redbox, and it was about -5 degrees out when I got the movies. I just picked the first one that I recognized, The Family starring Robert DeNiro and Michelle Pfeiffer.

As I pulled my discs from the machine, I looked at the board advertising all of the movies that are out and saw Don Jon. I really want to see that, so I ran back to my car to warm up, and found another texted code in my phone for 50 cents off a rental. Once I could feel my hands again, I hopped back out and rented Don Jon.

Three movies to watch with an 8 month old in the house. I was too ambitious getting three movies, but one was free, and the other was discounted, so I won't feel bad when I inevitably don't see one (or two) of them.

When I got home, Ozzie was on his way to sleep for the night. Once he was quiet we put in Captain Phillips. We made it to the 48 minute mark before Megan had to turn in. It's a great true story that I can't wait to finish, and I hope we can in the morning. I took the other two movies to our other TV, and I hope I can finish one of them before I fall asleep.

So anyways, The Oscars. We'll watch the red carpet, and the show. Everything else is reruns that night anyhow. I can root for the two of nine Best Picture noms I'll have seen. Better than nothing. That would be a good slogan for the show. The 86th annual Academy Awards. It's better than nothing!